Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+

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ISBN 139781849685344

Paperback208 pages

Book Description

Start your social media experience afresh, having the most fun you possibly can sitting at a computer or holding your smart phone.

Whether restarting your social media participation from another network (doing it right and with a lot more control this time) or just jumping in for the first time, this book leads you triumphantly through Plus. Like Plus itself, the book is fun, exciting, and condenses everything you need for maximizing enjoyment in an easily readable format with tons of informative illustrations.

Google Plus First Look shows you how to join Plus and the kind of initial setup that guarantees a successful and fun-filled experience. The second chapter shows you Circles, Google’s innovative bit of genius that has taken social networking to a new level of control over our own interactions. We’ll see (and I do mean see) how Hangouts (video conferencing) works, and master Streams (where posts go). Sharing photos and video is the easiest you’ve ever seen, and you will see it in Chapter 5. Nor do you have to leave Plus at home, in Chapter 6 we take our social networking with us on our smartphones. Photos and videos upload automatically, ready for sharing. Finally, we learn how to promote things the right way, the polite way on Plus. This book serves as an indispensible reference to all that and more.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Joining Plus and What to Do First

What is Plus?

Why join Google Plus?

How to join Plus

Privacy concerns

Profiles

What we learned

Chapter 2: Sorting Everyone into Circles

Tips on using Plus

The basics of Circles

Creating new Circles

Circles for Friends, Acquaintances, and Family

Mastering circle maintenance

Following celebrities and others

What we learned

Chapter 3: Hanging Out

What Are Hangouts?

Selecting and setting up a webcam

Starting your own Hangout

Joining existing Hangouts

Hanging out from YouTube

What we learned

Chapter 4: Streaming

Changelog

How the Stream works

Controlling what we see

Posting and Targeting

What we learned

Chapter 5: Sharing Media

Preparing photos for Plus

Uploading and captioning Photos

Using the Photos section

Preparing videos for Plus

Uploading and captioning videos

What we learned

Chapter 6: Mobile and Games

Getting mobile access to Plus on phones or tablets

Streaming

Photos

Circles

Messenger

Profile

Notifications

Settings

Games on Plus

What we learned

Chapter 7: Promoting on Plus the Right Way

Netiquette

Considerate marketing is effective marketing

Content is king

A marketing secret

Maximizing article views

Driving visitors to your website

Business and organization accounts

Starting circle groups

Google+ pages

What we learned

Conclusion

What You Will Learn

The basics of Plus

The easiest but most productive methods of coming up to speed on this fun-packed, powerful new kind of social network

Getting everyone in circles

Working with built-in video chat and related features

Using Google+ on your mobile

Promoting on Plus

Authors

Ralph Roberts

Ralph Roberts is a decorated Vietnam veteran and worked with NASA during the Apollo moon program. He built his first personal computer in 1976 and has been writing about them and on them since his first published article Down with Typewriters in 1978. He has written over 100 books along with thousands of articles and short stories. His bestsellers include the first U.S. book on computer viruses (which resulted in several appearances on national TV) and Classic Cooking with Coca-Cola®, a cookbook that has been in continuous print for the past 17 years and sold half a million copies.
Ralph is also a video producer with over 100 DVD titles now for sale nationally on places such as Amazon.com. He has also produced hundreds of hours of video for local TV in the Western North Carolina area and sold scripts to Hollywood producers. Previously for Packt, Ralph wrote Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting, Google App Inventor, and Google Plus First Look. Ralph and his wife Pat live on a farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina with two horses.

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